GREAT INCREASE
SEALS OF THE PACIFIC The United States, Great Britain, and Japan, are now regulating the killing of seals in the North Pacific Ocean, and the effect is that, in ten years, the seals have increased three times over. There were only 200,000 of them; there are now 600,000. Only one-fourth as many seals are being killed as were killed when sealing was not officially controlled. Yet the profit on the business has greatly increased, as the skins are making fourteen times the price they fetched when there was an indiscriminate slaughter.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19437, 24 October 1925, Page 17 (Supplement)
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93GREAT INCREASE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19437, 24 October 1925, Page 17 (Supplement)
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